It honestly sucks that some interesting structures are basically flags against the writer now. I personally love the rule of three, the Oxford comma, the semicolon to hang a dependent clause, and yes, even the now fucking pervasive em-dash. It’s just one more thing that LLMs have ruined for us.
I’m not saying using any Emdash at all is a surefire tell that stuff is written by AI. but the Way the article opens, it’s a juxtaposition of key signs of AI writing.
I use emdashes, sparingly, in my own writing. Hooray, now people mistrust me for doing that.
It honestly sucks that some interesting structures are basically flags against the writer now. I personally love the rule of three, the Oxford comma, the semicolon to hang a dependent clause, and yes, even the now fucking pervasive em-dash. It’s just one more thing that LLMs have ruined for us.
I’m not saying using any Emdash at all is a surefire tell that stuff is written by AI. but the Way the article opens, it’s a juxtaposition of key signs of AI writing.
As they should.